2012 X5m Stolen In Germany

[gilbertfg]

For Those In Europe, Germany To Be Exact. Be On The Look Out Please. My Alpine White X5m Was Stolen Today. Last 7 Of The Vin Is Lk27737. License Plate Bir Vt 17. I've Only Had The Car For 9 Days And Roughly 600 Miles.

[Vastyle]

WTF!!!! Sux man, sorry.

[gilbertfg]

It's probably taken out of Germany by now! My little Dodge Caliber just won't cut it.

[docpowell]

where in Germany.

[gilbertfg]

It was stolen at Bad Homburg, about 15 from Frankfurt.

[docpowell]

Man that sucks! Im in Stuttgart, picking up from the Welt on the 2nd of Dec. I will keep a look out man, but like you said, it is probably out of Germany. What did the Polizei say? How about your insurance company?

[MistahX5]

mustve been professionals to do this, because arent these cars supposingly not easy to steal?

[gilbertfg]

My wife's friend had an X5M too, German spec. They parked their truck to get coffee in Berlin and 10 minutes later it was gone! I was telling my wife the same thing, these bad boys are hard to steal. Plus I was talking to one of the salesman last night about the GPS. Since it's American spec, the tracking device for it is aimed at North America or vice versa. I was thinking since it's a GPS, it should be global. I just didn't want to go in detail as I was getting irritated each day every time I saw an X5.

[M5007]

Wow. That sucks.

[vase330]

Originally Posted by gilbertfg

My wife's friend had an X5M too, German spec. They parked their truck to get coffee in Berlin and 10 minutes later it was gone! I was telling my wife the same thing, these bad boys are hard to steal. Plus I was talking to one of the salesman last night about the GPS. Since it's American spec, the tracking device for it is aimed at North America or vice versa. I was thinking since it's a GPS, it should be global. I just didn't want to go in detail as I was getting irritated each day every time I saw an X5.

Sorry to hear that man. When I picked up my 335i in Munich, they loaded Eropean maps for me into my US car. It worked fine. When it was shipped here, local dealer loaded US maps no problem. In fact I used BMW Assist in Munich when a giltch shutdown my car 2 miles from pick up, and it wouldn't start again. Last month I drove from Virginia to Montreal Canada, and the GPS worked seamlessly. I think yours should work. You should actually have remote control of your vehicle from your BMW assist account if you activated it. I can lock and unlock my car remotely via BMW assist Europe account I created, but use it with my car here. The cars over here dont have that feature, but a friend clued me in to go to create a European account and register the vin, it works, its already on the car, just need to activate free too. You have 2012, must have even more features. You can use an iPhone and see where your car is live as I can too. Hope that helps if you had registered and activated an account. But BMW should be able to this for you with just a call, maybe they want police report?

[ApexM3]

What do the police and insurance say? THe bmw assist thing sounds like a good idea. Did you call them?

[tjank123]

That sucks! So much for BMW Assist. I heard that the tracking GPS device is easily disabled by placing a piece of aluminum foil over the antennae.

[hyde]

I know It's too late but you can always track your own vehicle by adding aftermarket devices. I am not sure how well they work in Europe but you can spend a few hundred $ if you love your vehicle and add one of your own, plus monthly service charge if you want to be able to spot it using any browser.

[gilbertfg]

I had the truck for 9 days and didn't even have the time to look for stuff like =(